RE: does PAM for AS400 exist?

Sorry for not being more specific, I'm in the process of figuring out what
"pluggable authentication" means myself.  The sense I have about PAM is
that it's a generic API for defining how username/password pairs are
actually processed, and can be used for stuff like single signon.  Not
strictly a Java thing...originally developed at Sun, now used widely on
Linux.

I stumbled onto EIM about an hour ago, and my followup question was going
to be "can one use EIM to define the actual backend auth scheme for a
particular application, or (possibly) for the entire system?"  From the
intro articles/diagrams I looked at, it seemed mostly like a way for two
systems to map (already authenticated) usernames between each other.

I found some decent EIM docs, so I'll read for a while and see if I can't
figure out what I'm asking. :)

-jared

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Joe Pluta wrote:

> > From: Pat Barber
> >
> > At the risk of sounding dumb as a brick, just what are
> > you talking about ???
>
> As a fellow brick, Pat, I did a little research. As close as I can tell,
> PAM is the Java version of EIM.  Just google for pluggable
> authentication module and you'll get a ton of hits:
>
> http://java.sun.com/security/jaas/doc/pam.html
>
> Joe
>
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